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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
the Calyxlimb, usually 1 -seeded blaek when ripe, embryo curved, 
oxile (Kanjilal). 
Use : — The bark is considered tonic. It is also used in oph- 
thalmia (Dr. Stewart) 
731 . S. racemosa, Roxb. h.f.b.i., hi. 576 , Roxb. 
415 . 
Sans. : — Lodhra. 
Vern. : — Lodh (H. and B.) ; Chamlani (Nepal); Palyok 
(Lepcha); Kaiday (Mechil; Singyan (Bhutia). 
Habitat :— Throughout North-East India, common from the 
Terai of Kumaun to Assam ; common throughout Chota Nag- 
pore. 
A small evergreen tree. Bark soft. Branchlets soon glab 
rous. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, obscurely 
crenate. Blade 4-6in. Petiole g-f in. Flowers yellow, fragrant, 
in simple hairy axillary, more or less lax racemes ; pedicels as 
long as Calyx-tube, which is glabrous; lobes rounded, equalling 
the tube, slightly pubescent and with ciliate edges. Stamens 
about 100-115. Disk glabrous. Corolla 3 times longer than 
calyx. Fruit cylindric, nearly jin. long, smooth, 1-3 celled. 
Calyxrim nearly as wide as the fruit, with erect teeth. Ovary 
3 celled, hairy. Embryo straight. 
Uses : — In Hindoo medicine, the bark is described as cooling, 
astrin gent, and useful in bowel complaints, eye diseases, ulcers, 
&c. A decoction is used as a gargle for giving firmness to 
bleeding and spongy gums (Dutt). 
It is often used in Bombay in the preparation of plasters 
[Up .) ; it is supposed to promote the maturation or resolution 
of stagnant tumors (’Dymock). 
Drs. Charles and K. L. Dey, recommend the bark in 20 
grain doses mixed with sugar, as a remedial agent in menor- 
rhagia due to relaxation of the uterine tissue; it should be 
given two or three times a day, for three or four days. Dr. K. 
L. Dey considers that the drug has a special action upon 
relaxed mucous membranes. 
